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and Lastly saith that the English mariners … and Lastly saith that the English mariners belonging to the<br />
sayd shipp. (not reckoning the sayd Captaine Hardidge his two servants)<br />
and this deponent and their losses) being about ten persons<br />
in number in losse of their Clothes. goods and tymes, (over and<br />
besides their particular negers and teeth aforesayd) suffered<br />
dammage in this deponents judgment the summe of five<br />
hundred pounds sterling. And otherwise knoweth not.
Recognis coram Com:rÿs
William Marshall [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The xxxth. day of July. 1654.
Examined upon the sayd allegation:-.
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'''ffrancis Hurdidge''' of Wapping in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner late master and Commander of the sayd shipp the ''Mary and John''<br />
aged 53. yeares, or thereabouts a witnesse sworne before<br />
the sayd Commissioners and examined deposeth and saith as<br />
followeth. videlicet
To the first article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith, that in and<br />
during the yeares 1648. 1649. 1650. and 1651. and monethes therein<br />
respectively, the arlate Thomas Adams Thomas Hollis Thomas Briggs and<br />
Company were the true and lawfull Owners of the sayd shipp the ''Mary''<br />
''and John'' and of her tackle apparell and furniture and so aććounted<br />
which he knoweth being Captaine or Comander of the sayd vessell for<br />
all the tyme aforesayd for and on the behalfe of his sayd Owners. And<br />
further deposeth not.
To the 2. article of the sayd allegation; This deponent saith that he was in<br />
the month of March 1648. English stile att Lisbon in Portugall, and<br />
then lett out a good part of the sayd shipp to Portugall merchants to<br />
Angola. and about or before the moneth of June, 1649 obteyned a<br />
license from the King of Portugall to sayle the sayd shipp to the Maderas<br />
Angola and Brazill and back to Lisbon. in which month of June<br />
this deponent set sayle from Lisbon upon the sayd voyage and arrived<br />
att Angola with his sayd shipp in Aprill 1659 (sic). and there the Governour<br />
of that place imprisoned this deponent and according to a price<br />
hereafter mentioned sett out and imployed the sayd shipp in the<br />
service of the King of Portugall as a man of warr, and kept the<br />
sayd shipp in such imployment about the space of four monthes<br />
the premisses he knoweth to be true for the reasons aforesayd. And<br />
further deposeth not.
To the third article he saith that the sayd Governour of Angola did promise and agree<br />
to pay unto this deponent for the service of his sayd shipp in the sayd<br />
warlike ymployment in peeces of India, after the rate of six<br />
hundred millres per moneth for every moneth that the sayd shipp<br />
should be and continue in such imployment. But the sayd Governour<br />
did not make payment aććording to his promises. but forced<br />
this deponent to aććept of a great part thereof, in man[?c]omentos that<br />
is meate made of the rootes of trees, being food for Negroes. In<br />
[?B]awnoes that is to say money made of mattes or straw; and in salt, and<br />
other payments in which regard the Owners of the sayd shipp did loose and were<br />
endammaged to the summe or value of five hundred millres. And<br />
further deposeth not.
To And<br />
further deposeth not.
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